[Stanshant]

I can't let go of this time or of Dave and Kria. They looked perfect together, sounded perfect together, everything I ever dreamed of as a young man.







You listen to that First Unitarian Church show and that's the only place on Earth I would want to be outside of my wife's arms and my own home.

Only you people know what I mean. The intimacy and love and happiness in the room is incredible and heart-warming. I'm so sad it's gone. I'm old enough to know that life ain't fair but when it sets you thinking, how can you ever really accept it?

[terrestrialjane]

at least they released pullrub when they could
that was a good time indeed
dance to your daddy

[thebackdrifter]

As someone who has recently gone through a really intense breakup of 7 years, yeah those early days of pure joy and love were amazing but I am a different person and so is she. People change. Avey has changed, Kria has changed. We will never be in a vacuum and be able to keep the magic that one period of our lives once had.

[Calamity Pete]

You have your fits, I have my fits. But feeling is good.

[BenPup]

this is why the band doesnt come here anymore

[destiny]

opis helpus fuckin rules

[thebackdrifter]

BenPup wrote:

this is why the band doesnt come here anymore

[Hellomark]

I will say that Yelling at the Night is an incredible song and it's as much of a crime that it never got an official release as Sponge Luke, From a Beach, Glasslands, etc.

[Stanshant]

To be honest, if the band still came here, I wouldn't postpone this. I'm very aware of that reality. I also know that this is life but beyond the fortune cookie 'life goes on' inanity, it's genuinely sad and painful to accept that this situation is long gone.

[roopn]

Such a shame they cut the lyrics from Foetus snowman on the album. That song is amazing

[destiny]

Yo band looking at this tell panda bear to stream on twitch.tv

[Tesla]

yo i just downloaded this album and it's backwards what the fuck gives? i want my money back

[terrestrialjane]

was onaip

[roopn]

Tesla wrote:

yo i just downloaded this album and it's backwards what the fuck gives? i want my money back

Lol

[Hash]

[Tesla]

terrestrialjane wrote:

was onaip

holy shit i just put this into an anagram generator and it came back with "piano saw"

[terrestrialjane]

if they were still together
they could sound some
thing like this maybe

[Hash]

What's going on, Tesla

[Tesla]

Hash wrote:

What's going on, Tesla

that avey guy is 2 pretentious 4 me man i mean who releases an album backwards? he's just a troll

[Stanshant]

Having a proper binge on this again. Some weaker songs which drift a bit but overall, this is the great lost collection of AC songs, the perfect melange of Sung Tongs and Feels sounds and composition. The atmosphere is unreal, so tender and gentle but brimming with passion and lust and vain clinging to these feelings and moments. Maybe the saddest AC release of all.

[Fovrodi]

Sasong is easily the best song on it, top 3 of his ever maybe

”on a beautiful surf I found a seaweed person...”

[Tropic]

Yeah for sure

[Stanshant]

Totally agree. I'm probably repeating myself from earlier but this is yet another where the live experience is basically the ultimate version of the album, so much more powerful and the quality of the boots is excellent.

[destiny]

we were just politely drinking...

[utensilvirus]

Kria has a new record coming out soon called I Must Be The Devil (no official date mentioned, but the website used to say it was coming in 2018). http://www.kristinanna.com/ has the link to the single which is great in my opinion. She also give an interview about the new record here: https://grapevine.is/culture/music/2018 ... fessional/

I don't know what happened between those two (though I can speculate), but their work together was magic. I still really like her other music though. Apotropaíosong Armor and Uterus Water have some really cool/eerie/cute moments. I was in Iceland in January and missed a live show of hers by only a day or two which was a shame. Her twin sister had an album you could listen to on the flight over though.

[scrambledgreggs]

yeah where is that new Kristin Anna album, I've been on the lookout for it for awhile

her album Howl from 2015 was also good even though it was way more ambient/drone-leaning

apotropaiosong armor was pretty magical too

[Hash]

I like her more poppy shit. I learned a lot of Bee Xlaura on piano.

[Tesla]

Honestly I think Finally We Are No One was something I was listening to back before I got super into Animal Collective. Her work with mum is actually awesome and part of me wishes she still worked with them.

Also, does Avey's vocals on "Sis Around the Sandmill" remind anybody else of the theme song from Doug?

[utensilvirus]

Bumping this to say Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir's new album is finally out. I'm digging it. It's pretty heavy and emotional sounding. I wish I could decipher the lyrics better.

Snippets from The Vinyl Factory promo article:
Featuring music written for piano and voice between 2005 and 2017, which she calls “a very personal affair, something I did for emotional and spiritual survival,” I Must Be the Devil was recorded over the last four years with Kjartan Sveinsson (formerly of Sigur Rós). It follows the 2015 release of HOWL, also in collaboration between The Vinyl Factory and Bel-Air Glamour Records.

Describing the record, Kjartansson says: “Kristín roams the earth weaving a thread of her life, her loves, her dreams into this confessional gem of an album. The music is a reflection of life lived away from the norms banging old pianos and celebrating a conflicted lust for life… This is a big record full of deep truths, suffering, irony and beauty.”

[scrambledgreggs]

finally!

omg that album cover lol

[Candy]

scrambledgreggs wrote:

omg that album cover lol

reminds me of electric ladyland.

I like how piano heavy the album is, and so emotional. it's lovely to have a new release by her (and gyda for that matter). now if only she were to do some europe touring..

[utensilvirus]

Looks like she'll be in London May 16th according to her site. Their's a NY date on there too with a note about more TBA.

Dang, not only did I miss a performance of hers by just a day or two when I was in Reykjavík earlier this year, she was a performer at Eaux Claires 2018 in my neck of the woods, but the entire lineup was a surprise so I had no idea and wasn't there. Maybe one day I'll be able to catch her live.

[scrambledgreggs]

finally have a chance to listen to I Must Be the Devil today, holy smokes is it great. her voice is really something else. cool to see "Place of You" on here after hearing it so long ago as the Uterus Water B-side

[utensilvirus]

Heartly Matters lyric deciphering

Spoiler: show

He waited until the morning after
He waited with his heartly matters
And all that he said, so silent
And all that he felt, kept inside
And now ghostly voices inside him sing

Oh when two become one
It's half when one's gone
And I do love the she sounded
And I do love the we sounded
I do miss it some, I do miss it some

She waited til the morning after
She waited with her heartly matters
And then wishfully, she closed her eyes
And then wishfully, I can open them

From no one beside her
And voices inside her said

Oh when two become one
It's half when one's gone
And I do love the he sounded
And I do love the we sounded
I do miss it some, I do miss it some

[Lacrimosa]

What are you doing to me, Stan.

[Stanshant]

Diamonds are days with fire.

There are days when I think this is my favourite AC release. The lyrics are probably my favourite Dave ever wrote. I hope I live another fifty years tonight enjoy this and I wonder how it will hit me in different ways in all those days before I'm gone.

[dud]

wow. my least listened to AC project besides maybe jane and terrestrial tones. only ever listened maybe twice. dunno why. revisiting right now

[Stanshant]

My man. My man. You've got some glory days ahead of you.

[dud]

excited and grateful what i'd give to listen to the rest of the ac discog with a fresh ear...

[Stanshant]

Sasong and Opis Helpus are extraordinary and if you get into the boots, the live Foetus No Man will make you question why they could ever release it as an instrumental.